Patents Examined by Farid Khan
  • Patent number: 8039840
    Abstract: A display device having the high aperture ratio and a storage capacitor with high capacitance is to be obtained. The present invention relates to a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a thin film transistor which includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a first semiconductor layer, a channel protective film, a second semiconductor having conductivity which is divided into a source region and a drain region, and a source electrode and a drain electrode; a third insulating layer formed over the second conductive film; a pixel electrode formed over the third insulating layer, which is connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a storage capacitor formed in a region where a capacitor wiring over the first insulating layer and the pixel electrode are overlapped with the third insulating layer over the capacitor wiring interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunio Hosoya
  • Patent number: 8026595
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a fabrication method of the semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including: a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode which are placed on a first surface of a substrate, and have a plurality of fingers; a gate terminal electrode, a source terminal electrode, and the drain terminal electrode which governed and formed a plurality of fingers for every the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; an active area placed on an underneath part of the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, on the substrate between the gate electrode and source electrode, and on the substrate between the gate electrode and the drain electrode; a sealing layer which is placed on the active area, the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode through a cavity part, and performs a hermetic seal of the active area, the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kazutaka Takagi
  • Patent number: 8022393
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to a method for making a nanoscale filed effect transistor structure on a semiconductor substrate. The method comprises disposing a mask on a semiconductor upper layer of a multi-layer substrate, and removing areas of the upper layer not covered by the mask in a nanowire lithography process. The mask includes two conductive terminals separated by a distance, and a nanowire in contact with the conductive terminals across the distance. The nanowire lithography may be carried out using a deep-reactive-ion-etching, which results in an integration of the nanowire mask and the underlying semiconductor layer to form a nanoscale semiconductor channel for the field effect transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Alan Colli
  • Patent number: 8008171
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of providing a poly-Si layer used in fabricating poly-Si TFT's or devices containing poly-Si layers. Particularly, a method utilizing at least one metal plate covering the amorphous silicon layer or the substrate, and applying RTA (Rapid Thermal Annealing) for light illuminating process, then the light converted into heat by the metal plate will further be conducted to the amorphous silicon layer to realize rapid thermal crystallization. Thus the poly-Si layer of the present invention is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignees: Tatung Company, Tatung University
    Inventors: Chiung-Wei Lin, Yi-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 8004049
    Abstract: A device includes an array of cells, the source regions of the individual cells comprising a plurality of source region branches each extending towards a source region branch of an adjacent cell, the base regions of the individual cells comprising a corresponding plurality of base region branches merging together to form a single base region surrounding the source regions. The junctions between the merged base region and the drain region define rounded current conduction path areas for the on-state of the device between adjacent cells. Floating voltage regions of opposite conductivity type to the drain region are buried in the substrate beneath the merged base region. The features of the floating voltage regions define rings of the opposite conductivity type to the drain region that surround the current conduction paths of respective cells. The floating voltage regions include respective islands situated within the current conduction paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Reynes, Stephane Alves, Ivana Deram, Blandino Lopes, Joel Margheritta, Frederico Morancho
  • Patent number: 7999365
    Abstract: A multichip module defining a dc to dc converter employs a monolithic chip containing at least two III-nitride switches (a monolithic CSC chip) mounted on a conductive lead frame. The CSC chip is copacked with an IC driver for the switches and with the necessary passives. The module defines a buck converter; a boost converter, a buck boost converter, a forward converter and a flyback converter. The drain, source and gate pads of the monolithic CSC chip are connected to a lead frame by solder or epoxy or by bumping attach and a conductive connector or wire bonds connect the switch terminal to lead frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventors: Kunzhong Hu, Chuan Cheah, Bo Yang
  • Patent number: 7999283
    Abstract: A light emitting device having an encapsulant with scattering features to tailor the spatial emission pattern and color temperature uniformity of the output profile. The encapsulant is formed with materials having light scattering properties. The concentration of these light scatterers is varied spatially within the encapsulant and/or on the surface of the encapsulant. The regions having a high density of scatterers are arranged in the encapsulant to interact with light entering the encapsulant over a desired range of source emission angles. By increasing the probability that light from a particular range of emission angles will experience at least one scattering event, both the intensity and color temperature profiles of the output light beam can be tuned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Arpan Chakraborty, Bernd Keller
  • Patent number: 7994629
    Abstract: A method of manufacture of a leadless integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; patterning a die attach pad on the substrate; forming a tiered plated pad array around the die attach pad; mounting an integrated circuit die on the die attach pad; coupling an electrical interconnect between the integrated circuit die and the tiered plated pad array; forming a molded package body on the integrated circuit die, the electrical interconnects, and the tiered plated pad array; and exposing a contact pad layer by removing the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Stats Chippac Ltd.
    Inventor: Zigmund Ramirez Camacho
  • Patent number: 7994620
    Abstract: A stacked semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor element bonded on a circuit base. The first semiconductor element is electrically connected to a connection part of the circuit base via a first bonding wire. A second semiconductor element is bonded on the first semiconductor element via a second adhesive layer with a thickness of 50 ?m or more. The second adhesive layer is formed of an insulating resin layer whose glass transition temperature is 135° C. or higher and whose coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition temperature is 100 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshimura, Hideko Mukaida
  • Patent number: 7989859
    Abstract: A backside illuminated imaging sensor includes a semiconductor layer, a metal interconnect layer and a silicide light reflecting layer. The semiconductor layer has a front surface and a back surface. An imaging pixel that includes a photodiode region is formed within the semiconductor layer. The metal interconnect layer is electrically coupled to the photodiode region and the silicide light reflecting layer is coupled between the metal interconnect layer and the front surface of the semiconductor layer. In operation, the photodiode region receives light from the back surface of the semiconductor layer, where a portion of the received light propagates through the photodiode region to the silicide light reflecting layer. The silicide light reflecting layer is configured to reflect the portion of light received from the photodiode region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Duli Mao, Hsin-Chih Tai, Vincent Venezia, Howard E. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 7989926
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate formed of a single crystal. a silicon carbide layer disposed on a surface of the single crystal substrate and an intermediate layer disposed on a surface of the silicon carbide layer and formed of a Group III nitride semiconductor, wherein the silicon carbide layer is formed of a cubic crystal stoichiometrically containing silicon copiously and the surface thereof has a (3×3) reconstruction structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventor: Takashi Udagawa
  • Patent number: 7981804
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal interconnection that has a favorable cross-sectional shape is provided without the fear of side etching, even in a sparse arrangement of metal interconnections. The method, the following structure is employed. A region for placing a dummy metal interconnection is provided close to a region in which a metal interconnection is formed. A trench is formed in the dummy metal interconnection region and a resist pattern for the metal interconnection is then formed, giving the resist above the trench a large surface area per unit area. The metal interconnection is subsequently formed by dry etching in which an organic component from the resist above the trench forms a solid sidewall protection film, permitting anisotropic etching. The metal interconnection can thus have a favorable cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Michihiro Murata
  • Patent number: 7982320
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for the manufacture of a solder-bump adhered wafer substrate for use in the semiconductor industry, comprising one or more of the following steps including: arranging a first compressive member and a second compressive member in an opposed, compressibly displaceable, spaced-apart relationship, with a pattern plate disposed therebetween with the pattern plate having a plurality of aligned through-holes arranged thereon; filling the through-holes with a molten solder; compressing the solder and the pattern plate between the first and second opposed compressive members to compact the solder therein and cleans the pattern plate of excess solder; chilling the pattern plate to solidify the molten solder in the through-holes; and removing the pattern plate from the spaced-apart compressive members to produce a wafer with solder bumps thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Semigear Inc.
    Inventors: Chunghsin Lee, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7973333
    Abstract: A lateral DMOS-transistor is provided that includes a MOS-diode made of a semi-conductor material of a first type of conductivity, a source-area of a second type of conductivity and a drain-area of a second type of conductivity which is separated from the MOS-diode by a drift region made of a semi-conductor material of a second type of conductivity which is at least partially covered by a dielectric gate layer which also covers the semi-conductor material of the MOS-diode. The dielectric gate-layer comprises a first region of a first thickness and a second region of a second thickness. The first region covers the semi-conductor material of the MOS-diode and the second region is arranged on the drift region. A transition takes place from the first thickness to the second thickness such that an edge area of the drift region which is oriented towards the MOS-diode is arranged below the second area of the gate layer. The invention also relates to a method for the production of these types of DMOS-transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Dietz, Volker Dudek, Thomas Hoffmann, Michael Graf, Stefan Schwantes
  • Patent number: 7968388
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin-film device includes forming a separation layer on a substrate, forming a base insulating layer on the separation layer, forming a thin-film device layer on the base insulating layer, bonding a transfer layer including the base insulating layer and the thin-film device layer to a transfer body with an adhesive, causing intralayer delamination or interfacial delamination in the separation layer, and removing the transfer layer from the substrate. The thin-film device layer includes a first wiring sublayer which is located at the bottom of the thin-film device layer and which is in contact with the base insulating layer, a dielectric sublayer which is in contact with a surface of the first wiring sublayer, a semiconductor sublayer electrically insulated from the first wiring sublayer with the dielectric sublayer, and a second wiring sublayer formed subsequently to the semiconductor sublayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yuko Komatsu
  • Patent number: 7964936
    Abstract: Electronic device packages with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) coating thereon are presented. An electronic device package includes a chip scale package having a CMOS image sensor (CIS) array chip and a set of lenses configured with an aperture. An encapsulation is molded overlying the chip scale package. A shield is atop the encapsulation. A frame fixes the set of lenses to the encapsulation. An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) coating is formed on the encapsulation to prevent electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: VisEra Technologies Company Limited
    Inventors: Shin-Chang Shiung, Tzu-Han Lin, Chieh-Yuan Cheng, Li-Hsin Tseng
  • Patent number: 7955946
    Abstract: The invention includes methods of determining x-y spatial orientation of a semiconductor substrate comprising an integrated circuit, methods of positioning a semiconductor substrate comprising an integrated circuit, methods of processing a semiconductor substrate, and semiconductor devices. In one implementation, a method of determining x-y spatial orientation of a semiconductor substrate comprising an integrated circuit includes providing a semiconductor substrate comprising at least one integrated circuit die. The semiconductor substrate comprises a circuit side, a backside, and a plurality of conductive vias extending from the circuit side to the backside. The plurality of conductive vias on the semiconductor substrate backside is examined to determine location of portions of at least two of the plurality of conductive vias on the semiconductor substrate backside. From the determined location, x-y spatial orientation of the semiconductor substrate is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Pratt, Kyle Kirby, Steve Oliver, Mark Hiatt
  • Patent number: 7947574
    Abstract: A laser processing method is provided, which, even when a substrate formed with a laminate part including a plurality of functional devices is thick, can cut the substrate and laminate part with a high precision. This laser processing method irradiates a substrate 4 with laser light L while using a rear face 21 as a laser light entrance surface and locating a light-converging point P within the substrate 4, so as to form modified regions 71, 72, 73 within the substrate 4. Here, the quality modified region 71 is formed at a position where the distance between the front face 3 of the substrate 4 and the end part of the quality modified region 71 on the front face side is 5 ?m to 15 ?m. When the quality modified region 71 is formed at such a position, a laminate part 16 (constituted by interlayer insulating films 17a, 17b here) formed on the front face 3 of the substrate 4 is also cut along a line to cut with a high precision together with the substrate 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Kenshi Fukumitsu
  • Patent number: 7943988
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and a first doping concentration. A first semiconductor region, used as drain, of the first conductivity type has a lower doping concentration than the semiconductor layer and is over the semiconductor layer. A gate dielectric is over the first semiconductor region. A gate electrode over the gate dielectric has a metal-containing center portion and first and second silicon portions on opposite sides of the center portion. A second semiconductor region, used as a channel, of the second conductivity type has a first portion under the first silicon portion and the gate dielectric. A third semiconductor region, used as a source, of the first conductivity type is laterally adjacent to the first portion of the second semiconductor region. The metal-containing center portion, replacing silicon, increases the source to drain breakdown voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Pham, Bich-Yen Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7939872
    Abstract: A multi-dielectric film including at least one first dielectric film that is a composite film made of zirconium-hafnium-oxide and at least one second dielectric film that is a metal oxide film made of amorphous metal oxide. Adjacent ones of the dielectric films are made of different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Cheol Lee, Sang-Yeol Kang, Ki-Vin Lim, Hoon-Sang Choi, Eun-Ae Chung